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A Better Way to Integrate With the Microsoft Exchange Email API

The Nylas Email API Powers Apps With 100% of Email Service Providers

Microsoft Exchange is one of the leading email service providers with hundreds of millions of active users and counting. Building an integration to connect your application to Exchange can be tricky though — there are multiple protocols and the docs are dense. The Nylas Email API eliminates the headache of integrating with Exchange both on-prem and in the cloud, and gives you a dependable platform to future-proof your application.

Nylas Lets You Integrate with the Exchange Email API in 4 Lines of Code

There are three protocols you can use to integrate with Exchange: EWS, EAS, and IMAP. While EWS is the newest of the three protocols, it can fall short of the modern development standards you expect from mission critical tools like email.

The Nylas API sits on top of Microsoft Exchange's infrastructure, helping you get full email CRUD and bi-directional sync with as little as four lines of code.

When building directly on the Exchange platform, you’re responsible for brokering negotiations between different versions of EAS and EWS.Theserver-side issues are vast, including things like: intermittent processing issues, mailboxes that won’t sync, and granting administrator privileges from Office 365.

These problems are only magnified as you scale. Each new server requires another dependency. Troubleshooting errors for new users syncing email accounts can turn the maintenance of your EAS integration into a full-time job.

Nylas does things differently. With the Nylas Email API for Exchange, you get production-ready, flexible code in the programming language that best suits you,so you can engineer your email stack to your specifications.

Scaling Exchange Functionality on the Nylas Email API

We built our own Exchange/ActiveSync integration to simplify the integration process for developers around the world. While Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) was designed in 2003 for legacy mobile applications, the Nylas email API is designed for the modern business and the modern developer.

“Nylas allowed us to integrate with Office 365, Outlook, Exchange, and IMAP email providers in a scalable way.

The new features we built with the Nylas API help users understand each contact, opportunity, or deal at a glance - and because they don't have to switch to another app to communicate, they can be much more productive and close deals faster.

Nylas made it easy for us to deliver great email features that are also secure, reliable, and scalable.”

Timo Rein

Co-founder and CEO at Pipedrive

Pipedrive is a CRM and sales enablement software that uses Nylas to power their platform with two-way email sync and send. The added features help funnel sales prospects through the process quickly, leading to millions of dollars in revenue.